Genealogy of the Imperial Family of Russia¹

HIH Grand Duke Aleksej Aleksandrovitch and his descendants

HIH Aleksej Aleksandrovitch Grand Duke of Russia
* St. Petersburg, January 14th n.s., 1850
† (pneumonia) 38 Avenue Gabriel, Paris, November 14th, 1908

Married:

(morganatic) in Italy 1870:²
Aleksandra Zhukovskaya
* Düsseldorf, November 11th, 1842
† Wendischbora, 1899

Child from this marriage:

1. Aleksej Aleksejevitch Count Belevsky-Zhukovsky

Aleksej Aleksejevitch Count Belevsky-Zhukovsky
* Salzburg, November 26th, 1871
† (killed by the Soviets) in the Caucasus, 1930/2

Married:

1. Iljinskoe, August 29th, 1894:
   Maria Princess Troubetskoya
   * Elezavetino, June 18th, 1872
   † Paris, March 20th, 1954
2. ...:
   Nathalie Baroness Schöpping
   * ...
   † ...

Children from the first marriage:

1. Elisaveta Aleksejevna Countess Belevsky-Zhukovsky
2. Aleksandra Aleksejevna Countess Belevskya-Zhukovskya
   * Moscow, March 4th, 1899

   Married:

   1. Berlin, September 9th, 1925:
      Henry de Lepp
      * Aleksandrovsk, 1896
      † Dordogne, May 1955
      (Divorced: 1950)
   2. New York City, New York, November 20th, 1956:
      Georgij Flevitzky
      * St. Petersburg, 1904
      † New York City, New York, May 11th, 1960
3. Maria Aleksejevna Countess Belevskya-Zhukovskya
   * Moscow, October 26th, 1901
   † Cormeilles-en-Parisis, August 18th, 1996

   Married:

   1. Berlin, September 17th, 1922:
      Vladimir Sverbeev
      * Yalta, November 11th, 1890
      † Paris, January 3rd, 1951
   2. New York City, New York, October 28th, 1959:
      Vladimir Ianouchevsky
      * St. Petersburg, June 9th, 1897
      † Paris, February 13th, 1970

   Child from the first marriage:

   1. Elisabeth Vladimirovna Sverbeeva
      * Berlin, August 28th, 1923

      Married:

      1. New York City, New York, November 9th, 1947:
         Aleksandr Tarsaidze
         * Tiblisi, June 22nd, 1901
         † New York City, New York, March 18th, 1978
         (Divorced: 1953)
      2. New York City, New York, May 9th, 1965:
         Charles Byron-Patrikiades
         * Constantinople (today: Istanbul), December 15th, 1919
4. Sergej Aleksejevitch Count Belevsky-Zhukovsky

Elisaveta Aleksejevna Countess Belevsky-Zhukovsky
* Moscow, September 8th, 1896
† Princeton, New Jersey, July 30th, 1975

Married:

1. Moscow, January 1917:
   Pjotr Perevostchikov
   * Moscow, March 8th, 1872
   † Florence, June 28th, 1937
2. July 1939:
   Arthur Lourie
   * St. Petersburg, May 14th, 1892
   † Princeton, New Jersey, November 13th, 1966

Children from the first marriage:

1. Maria Petrovna Perevostchikova
   * Odessa, December 27th, 1917
   † Grasse, August 1st, 1990

   Married:

   Paris, May 1944:
   Lucien Teissier
   * Marseille, August 22nd, 1908
   (Divorced: 1960)

   Children from this marriage:

   1. Alexis Teissier
      * Paris, August 27th, 1946

      Married:

      Los Angeles, California, 1972:
      Allana Chesebro
      * ...
      (Divorced: 1980)

   2. Marie Beatrice Teissier
      * Paris, March 10th, 1950 or 1951
2. Dimitri Petrovitch Perevostchikov
   * Rapallo, June 25th, 1921
   † Paris, August 23rd, 1960

   Married:

   Paris, 1944:
   Marina Ourousova
   * ...
   (Divorced: 1947)

Sergej Aleksejevitch Count Belevsky-Zhukovsky
* Moscow, February 17th, 1903 or February 18th, 1904
† Los Angeles, California, November 27th, 1956

Married:

Paris, January 1926:
Nina Botkina
* Bern, May 19th, 1901
† Lausanne, October 16th, 1966

Child from this marriage:

1. Elena Sergejevna Countess Belevsky-Zhukovsky

Elena Sergejevna Countess Belevsky-Zhukovsky
* Paris, August 31st, 1929

Married:

1. Paris, November 17th, 1949:
   Nikolai Mojaisky
   * Paris, June 17th, 1928
   (Divorced: 1956)
2. Paris, July 16th, 1956:
   Kirill Count Nieroth
   * Paris, April 14th, 1930

Child from the first marriage:

1. Alexis Mojaisky
   (Since 1975:) Alexis Mojaisky Nieroth
   * Paris, December 20th, 1951
   (adopted by his stepfather in 1975)

   Married:

   Sea Cliff, New York, May 31st, 1975:
   Pamela Waldbauer
   March 17th, 1953

   Children from this marriage:

   1. Catherine Nieroth
      * Connecticut, February 27th, 1983
   2. Christopher Nieroth
      * Connecticut, August 23rd, 1989

Children from the second marriage:

2. Peter Count Nieroth
   * Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, June 17th, 1957
3. Elizabeth Countess Nieroth
   * Houston, Texas, February 2nd, 1966

Footnotes:

1. With special thanks to Dimitri Macedonsky and Paul Theroff.
2. Grand Duke Aleksej Aleksandrovitch is said to have married morganatically in Italy 1870 though it is not entirely clear whether this marriage actually occurred.

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Last updated: January 2nd, 2002.